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Week1
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tue, Jan 4



Nothing Scheduled
Wed, Jan 5
 10:00pm
 SSR
 All participants
 Organizational Meeting

10:20am
 Aud
 Christopher Marx
 TBA
Thu, Jan 6
 10:00am
 Aud
 Rachel Whitaker
 TBA
Fri, Jan 7
 10:00am
 Aud
 Paul Sniegowski
 TBA

2:00pm
 Aud
 Marty Einhorn
 What's a wiki good for?
 (10 min.)

2:15pm
 Aud
 Matt Kane
 Funding Opportunities for Research in Biological Physics
Week 2
Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Jan 10
 10:00am
 Aud
 Jeff Gore
 Cheating andcooperation in Microbes
Tue, Jan 11
 10:00am
 Aud
 Sergey Kryazhimskiy
 How Does Demography Affect Adaptation?
 Joshua Plotkin cannot come this week
Wed, Jan 12
 10:00am
 Aud
 Thane Papke
 Haloarchaea: Recombination, Outcomes and Mechanism
Thu, Jan 13
 10:00am
 Aud
 Dan Weinreich
 The Simplest Questions of Adaptation I Know (and perhaps even some answers!)
Fri, Jan 14
 10:00am
 Aud
 Eugene Shakhnovich
 Evolution on Physics-based Fitness Landscapes: Theory and Experiment


Week 3
Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Jan 17


Martin Luther King's day: No activities are planned
Tue, Jan 18
 10:00am
 Aud
 Bonnie Bassler
 Information Processing in Quorum Sensing Circuits

2:00pm
 SSR?
 Sheri Simmons
 Diversity in microbial populations in the wild
Wed, Jan 19
 10:00am
 Aud
 Michael Desai
 Genetic variation and the fate of beneficial mutations in asexual populations

3.45pm
 Aud
 Namiko Mitarai
 Choice of Synonymous Codons and Ribosome Traffic
Thu, Jan 20
 10:00am
 Aud
 Kim Sneppen
 Lessons from phage biology

3:45pm
 Aud
 Dan Weinreich
 Tracking Evolutionary Trajectories of Sexual Populations


Aud
 Michael Lässig
 Can evolution sense the curvature of fitness landscapes?
Fri, Jan 21
 9:30am
 Aud
 Arjan De Visser
 Microbial evolution on empirical fitness landscapes
 Double ticket! Note the hour!

11:00am
 Aud
 Lei-Han Tang
 Regulation of carbon flow in microbial metabolism
Week 4
Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Jan 24
 10:00am
 Aud
 Lilia Perfeito
 Fitness landscape of a metabolic pathway

5:00pm
 PL
Informal discussion on measurement of fitness
Tue, Jan 25
 10:00am
 Aud
 Erik van Nimwegen
 Looking for macroscopic laws in the evolution of genotypes and phenotypes
Wed, Jan 26
 10:00am
 Aud
 Joy Bergelson
 The evolution of gene-for-gene interactions in a plant-pathogen system
Thu, Jan 27
 9:30am
 Aud
 Martin Weigt
 Interprotein residue contacts and interaction specificity in bacterial signal transduction
 Double ticket! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 Alan Perelson
 HIV: Data and Models
 Title has changed
Fri, Jan 28
 10:00am
 Aud
 Terry Hwa
 On growth, antibiotic resistance, and evolution
Week 5
Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Jan 31
 10:00am
 Aud
 Ivan Matic
 Environmental tuning of mutation rates
Tue, Feb 1
 10:00am
 Aud
 Berenike Maier
 The type IV pilus as a multifunctional bacterial motor
Wed, Feb 2
 10:00am
 Aud
 Isabel Gordo
 The fitness effects of mutation in Escherichia coli: the good and the bad



Ana M. Sousa
Due to coincidence with the Special Seminar
(of general interest,) it's been moved to Thursday Morning
Thu, Feb 3
 9:30am
 Aud
 Ana M. Sousa
 Epistasis and compensatory evolution of antibiotic resistance
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 Olivier Tenaillon
 The bases of convergence in experimental adaptation
Fri, Feb 4


No activities are planned
Week 6
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Feb 7
 10:00am
 Aud
 E. Koonin
 Tree of Life, Net of Life, Forest of Life - Where are we?

12:15pm
 Aud
 TBA
 Galaxy Clusters:the Crossroads of Astrophysics and Cosmology
 Blackboard Lunch Seminar

3.45pm
 Aud?
 G. Sherlock
 Watching Yeast Change: Using Genomics to Understand the Influence of
Epistasis on the Adaptive Landscape
Tue, Feb 8
 9:30am
 Aud
 S. Schiffels
 Emergent neutrality in adaptive genome evolution
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 A. Walczak
 The effects of negative selection on the evolution of linked sites
Wed, Feb 9
 9:30am
 Aud
 C. Schlötterer
 New-generation Sequencing and the detection of selection in Drosophila and its endosymbionts
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:15am
 Aud
 A. Nour Mohammad
 Evolutionary modes of regulatory sequences in eukaryotes
Thu, Feb 10
 10:00 am
 Aud
 E. Kussell
 Age Structure in Bacterial Populations: Paths to Measurements
 Title has changed

4:00pm
 Aud?
 H.Y.Lee
 Modeling and Quantification of HIV-1 and SIV Intrahost Sequence Evolution

5:00pm
 Aud?
 JF Fontanari
 On Cultural Evolution
Fri, Feb 11


No activities are planned
Week 7
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Feb 14
 9:30am
 Aud
 N. Barton
 Branching processes in population genetics
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

10:45am
 Aud
 D. Weissman
 The rate of adaptation in large sexual populations
Tue, Feb 15
 9:30am
 Aud
 S. Otto
 Recombination and the deleterious hitchhiker
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 R. Neher
 Sex, Draft, and Survival

3:4pam
 Aud?
 N. Goldenfeld
 Two problems in microbial genome evolution: diversification fronts and the evolution of compositional bias
 New entry
Wed, Feb 16
 10:00am
 Aud
 S.F. Elena
 Experimental evolution of viruses: model systems and questions

3:45pm
 Aud?
 J. Miller
 Genome sequence power-laws <=> recombination
 New entry
Thu, Feb 17
 9:30am
 Aud
 J.J. Bull
 Quasispecies and lethal mutagenesis: Concepts and practice
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 E. Koonin
 The Virus World, its evolution, evolution of antiviral defense, and the role of viruses in the evolution of cells

4:00pm
 PL
Summary and discussion on recombination, selection and hitchhiking
 New entry
Fri, Feb 18
 9:30am
 Aud
 F. Rohwer
 Virus metagenomics
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 S. K. Remold
Experimental evolution of host-switching and emergence of new viruses
Week 8
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Feb 21

Barry Obama
 Presidents' Day Holiday
 No regularly scheduled events today.
Tue, Feb 22
 10:00am
 Aud
 P. Turner
 Robustness and evolvability in the viral world (tentative)
Wed, Feb 23
 9:30am
 Aud
 L. Wahl
 Three surprising predictions from modeling evolution experiments
 Double feature!! Note the hour!! Title has changed!

11:00am
 Aud
 M. Morelli
 The use of ultradeep sequencing for characterizing viral populations
 New entry

5:00pm
 Aud
 C. Wilke
 Quasispecies vs standard population genetics models
 Organized discussion
Thu, Feb 24
 10:00am
 Aud
 A. Perelson
 How to model a viral infection: Hepatitis C virus

3:45pm
 Aud
 S. Maslov
 Home Depot model of prokaryotic evolution by horizontal gene transfer

4:45pm
 Aud
 M. Gerstein
 Biological network change and evolution
Fri, Feb 25
 9:30am
 Aud
 P. Gerrish
 Antigenic evolution (tentative)
 Immunity day!! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 I. Rouzine
 Within-host dynamics HIV-1

1:30pm
 Aud
 A. Weinberger
 Persisting low-abundance viruses shape microbial-CRISPR based immunity

Week 9
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Symposium on emergent viruses
Mon, Feb 28
 9:30am
 Aud



11:00am
 Aud
 J. Gog
 Simple models for influenza antigenic drift

4:00pm
 Aud
 M. Lässig
 Clonal interference in the evolution of influenza
Tue, Mar 1st
 9:30am
 Aud
 M. Fares
 Dynamics of a re-emerging virus: Foot-and-mouth disease virus
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:00am
 Aud
 J. Weitz
 Bacterial fate determination by co-infecting viruses

4:00pm
 Aud
 C. Parrish
 Canine parvovirus origin and evolution

5:00pm
 Aud
 T. Leitner
 Inferring HIV epidemics from HIV phylogenetics
Wed, Mar 2
 9:30am
 Aud
 C. Macken
 Evolution of avian influenza A (H5) virus
 Double feature!! Note the hour!!

11:00
 Aud
 R. Neher
 HIV-1 Intra-host dynamics

4:00pm
 Aud
 L. Weinberger
 How Persisting Viruses Overcome Adaptive Immunity

5:00pm
 Aud
 MA Fares & SF Elena
 Organized discussion: What does experimental evolution teach about the evolution of emergent viruses?
Thu, Mar 3



No activities are planned
Fri, Mar 4



No activities are planned



Week 10
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
Mon, Mar 7
 10:00 am
 Aud
 J. de Meaux
 Evolution of flagellin perception in Arabidopsis thaliana and its relatives
 New: starts at 10:00!

2:00pm
 Aud
 B. Mehlig
Linkage disequilibrium in populations of variable size

Tue,
Mar 8
 09:30am
 Aud
 C. Wilke
Biophysical constraints on sequence evolution
 Starts at 09:30!

11:00am
 Aud
 R. Zorzenon
 > Tuberculosis and its spreading within and between hosts
Wed, Mar 9
 09:30am
 Aud
 S. Sunyaev
 Selection and migration inside the host: rapid evolution of human JC virus associated with development of PML
 Starts at 09:30!

11:00am
 Aud
 J. Krug
 Sign epistasis and evolutionary accessibility
Thu,
Mar 10
 09:30am
 Aud
 L. Mirny
Accumulation of deleterious passenger mutations in cancer
Starts at 09:30!

11:000am
 Aud
 T. Lawley
 Application of high-throughput genomics to Clostridium difficile evolutionand transmission


5:00pm
 Aud
 S. Lukic
 Numerical solutions to complex demographic models






Fri, Mar 11



No formal activities planned

Week 11
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
Mon, Mar 14
 09:30 am
 Aud
 O. Hallatschek
 Clonal interference in Structured Populations: Long Range Jumps better than Sex
 Starts at 09:30!

11:00am
 Aud
 D. Nelson
 Competition and cooperation at frontiers
Tue,
Mar 15
 09:30am
 Aud
 M. Doebeli
 Adaptive diversification
 Starts at 09:30!

11:00am
 Aud
 I. Nemenman
 Evolutionary dynamics in heterogeneous environments: three baby steps
Wed, Mar 16
 09:30am
 Aud
 V. Mustonen
 Quantifying selective forces from allele frequency time-series data of a yeast population under heat stress
 Starts at 09:30!

11:00am
 Aud
 P. Pennings
 What determines the rate of evolution of resistance in HIV?

Thu,
Mar 17
 09:30am
 Aud
 P. Rainey
 Evolution of bet hedging
 Starts at 09:30!

11:000am
 Aud
 J. Xavier
Conflict and cooperation in microbes

5:00pm
 Aud
 B. Austin
 Falling Uphill: Acceleration of the Emergence of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance






Fri, Mar 18



No formal activities planned


Week 12
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
Mon, Mar 21
 10:00am
 Aud
 D. Brisson
 Niche diversification and gene-for-gene interactions in a vertebrate-pathogen system


11:30am
S. Blumberg
 Disentangling the transmission dynamics of human monkeypox and other emerging zoonoses
Tue,
Mar 22
 09:30am
 Aud

D. Brockmann

Modelling disease dynamics on a global scale

Starts at 09:30!

11:00am
 Aud
 G. Rozhnova
 Stochastic models of infection dynamics
Wed, Mar 23
 10:00am
 Aud
 F. Rosenzweig
 E unibus plurum: How biodiversity evolves in a simple, homogenous environment

Thu,
Mar 24



No formal activities planned
*Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room, PL=Porthole Lounge
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